A message from Harold Varmus, July 15th, 2025
If you have arrived at this web page seeking the home page for the Varmus Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine, you deserve a brief explanation of our current status.
I shut down my laboratory and our research activities of during the first few months of this year for a variety of reasons, none of them directly related to the federal policies that are plaguing others. All of the personnel who had been working with me are now working with others and/or seeking new positions.
I remain a full-time member of the Weill Cornell faculty (and in no sense retired!), but I now devote the time I was giving to laboratory research to the development of an oncology unit within Cornell’s Center for Global Health (directed by Dr. Dan Fitzgerald). In addition to retaining my position as senior advisor to the Dean of WCM, I am continuing my roles with several other organizations, including the National Academies, the World Health Organization, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and some biotechnology companies and academic teams, especially the New York Genome Center, where I remain a Senior Staff Associate. In addition, I continue to carry out various teaching responsibilities in the Tri-Institutional ecosystem, and I give a yearly seminar course at Columbia College about the scientific enterprise.
This web site will remain open for at least another year, and references to new publications will continue to be added. Addresses provided here should allow you to contact recent members of my laboratory. If you encounter difficulties or have other questions, please send me an email at varmus@med.cornell.edu.
Thanks.
